[1]NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving fell in December, coming in about 8 percent below budget goals. However, year-to-date giving remains within 2 percent of targets.
Designated giving for December also showed a decline of nearly 16 percent compared with the same month last year, though year-to-date totals are only 3.72 percent below last year’s.
December National Cooperative Program giving:
- Monthly budgeted amount: $15,010,000.00
- December 2025 giving: $13,846,155.22
- Above/below budget: $1,163,844.78 (7.75 percent) below budget
Total National Cooperative Program giving:
- Year-to-date budgeted amount: $45,030,000.00
- Year to date giving: $44,237,790.72
- Above/under budget: $792,209.28 (1.76 percent) below budget
Designated giving:
- December giving: $3,875,369.37
- Year to date giving: $12,017,372.82
- Previous year to date total: $12,482,086.73
- Above/below previous year: $464,713.91 (3.72 percent) below the previous year
The Convention-adopted budget for 2025-2026 is $190,000,000 which includes a $3,000,000 special priority allocation for the SBC legal expenses.
Cooperative Program funds are then disbursed as follows:
- 50.41 percent to international missions through the International Mission Board
- 22.79 percent to North American missions through the North American Mission Board
- 22.16 percent to theological education through the six SBC seminaries and the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives
- 2.99 percent to the SBC operating budget
- 1.65 percent to the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
If national CP gifts exceed the budget projection at the end of the fiscal year, the balance of the overage is distributed according to the percentages approved for budgetary distribution. The SBC Executive Committee distributes all CP and designated gifts it receives on a weekly basis to the SBC ministry entities.
CP allocation budget gifts received by the Executive Committee are reported monthly to the executives of the entities of the convention, to the state convention offices and to the state Baptist papers and are posted online at sbc.net/cp.
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